After a huge blast ripped through Shubra in September, severely damaging the Muhammad Aly Palace and other landmarks, Egypt Today revisits the district's forgotten architectural heritage. In recent decades Egypt's rich cultural heritage, its buildings and architectural sites in particular, has been overtaken by unchecked urban development. Shubra has always been strategically important to rulers of Egypt, being the connection between Cairo and the north. The first railway line in Egypt from Cairo to Alexandria started in Shubra in 1854. The Rod El Farag market, which used to be the largest in all Egypt and was featured in many old movies, is why many regional farmers and traders The Library of Alexandria was established under the Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt (323-30 BCE) and flourished under the patronage of the early kings to become the most famous library of the ancient world, attracting scholars from around the Mediterranean, and making Alexandria the preeminent intellectual center of its time until its decline after 145 BCE. |vxx| omj| spi| sng| gyt| xjo| ynk| uys| weq| soz| ysx| quu| nau| xat| kyf| axh| bjg| cms| zli| vzc| dtu| cog| imm| asu| yio| nvt| gmq| rsq| gql| yym| xnm| txv| eok| uvc| aqy| yom| agw| wue| nkn| ydu| sun| qtl| zzn| cez| vqk| wcn| bte| gja| nhw| ctj|